Volume 19, Issue 6 pp. 545-557
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Engineering Chiral Catalysts through Asymmetric Activation and Super High Throughput Screening (SHTS)

Koichi Mkami

Koichi Mkami

Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2–12–1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, Japan

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Toshinobu Korenaga

Toshinobu Korenaga

Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2–12–1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, Japan

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Satoru Matsukawa

Satoru Matsukawa

Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2–12–1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, Japan

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Kui-Ling Ding

Kui-Ling Ding

State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

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Jiang Long

Jiang Long

State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

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First published: 26 August 2010
Citations: 3

Abstract

A conceptually new strategy for asymmetric catalysis, namely asymmetric activation, in which a chiral activator selectively activates one enantiomer of a racemic chiral catalyst, and a highly efficient screening system for finding the most effective catalysts, namely super high throughput screening (SHTS), by which the reaction can be conducted in parallel and the ee% of the product is allowed to determine within minutes, are summarized in the present account. It is reasonable to believe that SHTS technique combined with asymmetric activation or deactivation principle will provide a very powerful methodology for finding the new catalysts and the best catalyst tuning for asymmetric reactions.

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